Excess photon noise in semiconductor cascade lasers

Farhan Rana; Peter Mayer; Rajeev J. Ram

doi:10.1117/12.500877

16 May 2003 Excess photon noise in semiconductor cascade lasers

Farhan Rana, Peter Mayer, Rajeev J. Ram

Proceedings Volume 5111, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500877
Event: SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Abstract

Semiconductor cascade lasers have larger photon noise than conventional single stage semiconductor lasers as a result of positive correlations in photon emission in different gain stages which are connected electrically in series. The photon noise of cascade lasers can be related to the photon noise of single stage lasers with scaled external circuit impedances. This scaling relation for the photon noise holds for bipolar as well as unipolar cascade lasers.

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Farhan Rana, Peter Mayer, and Rajeev J. Ram "Excess photon noise in semiconductor cascade lasers", Proc. SPIE 5111, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics, (16 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.500877

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